Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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Re: Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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pospi wrote:I've just noticed the problem seems related to putting the file on the clipboard initially, rather than the resultant move/copy operation. If you copy a file in XYplorer and then paste it in regular windows explorer, you will experience the focus locking in windows explorer instead.
Wow, this is quite unexpected because the copying in this case is done by Explorer, not by XY. :shock: But I don't think it is related to the other XY-internal copy freeze (the clipboard is not involved in normal copies).

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Re: Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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admin wrote:
Wow, this is quite unexpected because the copying in this case is done by Explorer, not by XY. :shock: But I don't think it is related to the other XY-internal copy freeze (the clipboard is not involved in normal copies).

No ETA.

Any ETA on when you expect to be up and running with Win 7 x64 yourself? I know how hard it is to work blind.

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Mesh wrote:
admin wrote:
Wow, this is quite unexpected because the copying in this case is done by Explorer, not by XY. :shock: But I don't think it is related to the other XY-internal copy freeze (the clipboard is not involved in normal copies).

No ETA.

Any ETA on when you expect to be up and running with Win 7 x64 yourself? I know how hard it is to work blind.
No, I decided to stop promising ETAs. It's not possible to keep such promises.

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admin wrote:
No, I decided to stop promising ETAs. It's not possible to keep such promises.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I never took them for a promise, only an estimate.

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Re: Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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admin wrote:
pospi wrote:I've just noticed the problem seems related to putting the file on the clipboard initially, rather than the resultant move/copy operation. If you copy a file in XYplorer and then paste it in regular windows explorer, you will experience the focus locking in windows explorer instead.
Wow, this is quite unexpected because the copying in this case is done by Explorer, not by XY. :shock: But I don't think it is related to the other XY-internal copy freeze (the clipboard is not involved in normal copies).
Does anybody share the pospi experience? I just cannot see how this could possibly be caused by XY...

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It's a known fact that VB does not handle the clipboard correctly. For one thing it does not recognise it as a shared resource. There is also a problem with sending data to the clipboard in rapid succession, as I know from somebody who used to write in VB.

I had a problem with an XY script and an external program using the clipboard, the wrong data was read from the clipboard (there is a post about it somewhere on the forum).

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Re: Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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Gandolf wrote:It's a known fact that VB does not handle the clipboard correctly. For one thing it does not recognise it as a shared resource. There is also a problem with sending data to the clipboard in rapid succession, as I know from somebody who used to write in VB.

I had a problem with an XY script and an external program using the clipboard, the wrong data was read from the clipboard (there is a post about it somewhere on the forum).
I don't use VB to read/write clipboard. Just Windows API.

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Re: Windows 7 file dialogs are modal

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admin wrote:Does anybody share the pospi experience? I just cannot see how this could possibly be caused by XY...
I just tried on my Windows 7 Prof x64 and I see the same issue popsi mentioned. When copying files from XY and pasting them in WE the copy dialog steals the focus and locks up making the WE window inaccessible. I tested using v8.80.0337.

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